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In 1942, age 18, Patricia Owtram joined the WRNS. [9] [1] When it was discovered from the results of a WRNS German test that she spoke good conversational German, she signed the Official Secrets Act [10] and, after two weeks of basic training and a further intensive specialist interception course, was made Petty Officer and started work at the British navy’s signals collection sites, called ...
Estimates of the number of F Section female agents vary. Thirty-nine female SOE agents were trained in Britain. The following list of forty-one agents is taken from M.R.D. Foot, the official historian of the SOE, with two additions: Madeleine Barclay who served (and died) on a ship contracted to SOE and Sonia Olschanezky, a locally-recruited courier who was executed.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:British people of World War II. It includes British people of World War II that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
People who were members of the British Women's Land Army (World War II) (also known as Land Girls) Pages in category "Women's Land Army members of World War II" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
British women in World War II (8 C, 170 P) A. British anti–World War II activists (14 P) B. Bevin Boys (43 P) Bletchley Park people (1 C, 199 P) C.
Yvonne Claire Rudellat, MBE, (née Cerneau; 11 January 1897 – 23 or 24 April 1945), code name Jacqueline, was an agent of the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) organization in World War II. The purpose of SOE in occupied France was to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance.
Amelia King (25 June 1917–1995) was a British woman who was refused entry into the Women's Land Army, during World War II, because she was black. This example of racial segregation in the UK was debated in the House of Commons and was covered in newspapers internationally including The Chicago Defender. The decision would eventually be reversed.
McGeorge initially joined the Women's Land Army aged 20, in 1939, having been at physical training college. She resigned to join the Women's Royal Naval Service. [3]On 30 September 1941, [4] when a WREN third officer, she received the British Empire Medal, for bravery in carrying urgent despatches on foot in an air raid.